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Apple's trade secrets suit lands as OpenAI eyes an IPO this year
Apple's complaint names OpenAI's chief hardware officer and cites 400+ former Apple staff now at the company, weeks before a rumored public listing.
Patreon starts blocking AI scrapers with Cloudflare, dropping robots.txt approach
The membership platform is shifting from polite requests to active enforcement, cutting weekly scrape attempts from thousands to zero.
Apple passes Nvidia to reclaim world's most valuable company title
Apple hit a $4.88 trillion market value on Friday as Nvidia slipped 3%, ending the chipmaker's run at the top of the market.
Upper90 lends General Compute $400M against inference chips, not GPUs
The firm that pioneered GPU-backed lending in 2021 is now betting on SambaNova's SN50 silicon as the next collateral class.
Foundation, backed by Eric Trump, plans armed humanoid robots
CEO Sankaet Pathak says weapons systems arrive in months, with Phantom MK1 already tested by Ukrainian forces.
San Francisco orders Apple and Google to pull 13 AI 'nudify' apps
City Attorney David Chiu says the two stores likely made millions from face-swap apps used to create nonconsensual nude images.
Databricks lands funding at a $188 billion valuation
The data and AI platform's new mark cements its place among the highest-valued private companies in the AI stack.
Anthropic pushes states past transparency toward tougher AI audits
The $1T-valued lab says 2025's self-reporting laws are already outdated and is backing third-party audits in Illinois and Massachusetts.
Hyundai union strikes over Atlas humanoid robots, an auto-industry first
39,000 South Korean workers walked out as Hyundai plans 25,000 Boston Dynamics Atlas units across its plants starting 2028.
xAI sues Grok user for CSAM generation, argues users own AI outputs
Elon Musk's xAI filed its first lawsuit against a user accused of generating child sex images, staking out a legal theory that shifts liability from model to prompter.
AI Box ships MCP server, pipes 80+ models into Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini
The Model Context Protocol server routes 60 flagship endpoints across image, video, audio, and text through the assistant users already run.
Linus Torvalds tells anti-AI critics to fork Linux or walk away
The Linux creator says he will 'very loudly ignore' calls to ban LLM tools from the kernel, calling AI clearly useful for coding.
Roblox launches Build, an AI text-to-game tool inside its mobile app
The company opens public alpha in New Zealand on July 28, with a retention-based ranking system meant to keep AI slop off the homepage.
OpenAI defends teen access to ChatGPT with new safety framework
The company argues teens need age-appropriate AI access, pairing new protections with parental controls rather than blanket bans.
New York's Hochul used AI to review 'every single rule' in state law
Governor Kathy Hochul says AI compressed a five-year regulatory review into a couple of months, days after signing a hyperscale data center moratorium.
Moonshot's Kimi K3 aims to match Anthropic's Opus 4.8 as valuation hits $31.5B
The Chinese lab's next open-weight model will run 2–3 trillion parameters, the largest ever released from China.
Google renames NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook, adds code execution
The research app keeps its standalone form but gains a secure cloud computer and syncs with the Gemini app and Search.
AMI Labs' Alexandre LeBrun rejects 'AGI' and 'superintelligence' labels
The Yann LeCun-backed world model startup raised $1.03B in March but is still pre-product and courting Korean robotics partners.
Ex-DeepMind researcher raises $55M at $300M valuation for visual AI startup Elorian
Andrew Dai closed the seed round months after leaving Google, before Elorian shipped a product, betting visual reasoning is the next AI frontier.
OpenAI launches a $70 ChatGPT basketball alongside its first hardware
The rubber ball ships with a $230 mini keyboard and a $175 quarter-zip as OpenAI tests physical merchandise under a 'Pause. Play. Prompt.' campaign.
Google plugs Instacart, Canva, and YouTube into AI Mode search
AI Mode moves from answering questions to executing tasks, matching integration features already shipping in ChatGPT and Claude.
EU orders Google to open Android and Search to AI rivals under DMA
Google must give ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity comparable Android access as Gemini, with search data sharing due January 2027.
1Password lets Claude use your logins without ever seeing them
A new zero-exposure framework injects credentials through a secure channel Claude can't read, unlocking longer agentic browser tasks.
GeForce NOW exits India beta, adds Onimusha and five titles this week
Nvidia's cloud gaming service goes public in India with UPI payments, streams Onimusha: Way of the Sword at RTX 5080-class performance.
Axon's AI police revenue jumps 700% as vendors carve up the surveillance stack
Axon Era Plan subscriptions rose 140% year-over-year as Motorola, Flock, and startups race to sell AI decision-making to police departments.
Airbus picks Iliad's Scaleway for AI and defence workloads in sovereignty push
The European aerospace group taps a French cloud provider for sensitive AI work, sidestepping US hyperscalers on strategic projects.
Meta rolls back Instagram AI tagging in 3 days after opt-out backlash
The feature let users generate images of public Instagram accounts by default. It survived 72 hours before Meta pulled it.
Applied Computing raises $20M for Orbital, an AI model for oil and gas plants
KBR led the Series A into the London startup, whose foundation model fuses sensor, physics, and language data to run refineries in real time.
Microsoft coaches sales team to pitch against OpenAI and Anthropic
Executives at an internal FY27 strategy meeting told salespeople to frame Copilot as faster and more secure than Claude and rival models.
Nvidia unveils Jetson Thor T3000 and T2000 for mainstream robotics
The Blackwell-based T3000 delivers 865 FP4 teraflops in half the size of the T5000; both modules ship Q1 2027.
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